I think Kijiji is going pretty well, at least in Canada. Someone I know was looking for a room to rent for school, and found many times (she said 10 times) as many rooms and suites available on Kijiji. It's better organized, too, apparently.
Rootkits are about avoiding detection while granting somebody else the ability to execute arbitrary code remotely. Although it's a deviation from the origin of the name, there's no requirement that a rootkit have root access. Ring 3 rootkits are still considered rootkits, and that includes this one, which is essentially a DLL injection into the browser, if one that's not hidden from the user, just made to seem harmless. That is, if you see that there is a uPlay plugin after you install uPlay, you might assume that's to interface between their store and their DRM, rather than having a built-in browser like Steam has. You probably wouldn't think it's there to execute arbitrary code from any website that wants to. When they talk about "privileged access" to your system, they mean the philosophical "privileged access", which is access that nobody else has. Executing arbitrary code is privileged access, because only the local user is supposed to be able to do that. It doesn't mean "root access". At any rate, I don't think privilege escalation is tricky on Windows.
It's civilized violence. Right there in the title. It's so much more acceptable to direct troops without actually seeing the battlefield, rather than actually being there and shooting things yourself! If you don't see the violence, it's just numbers.
Yes, well, I did mean the whole idea of a construction that massive was what was absurd, just more so due to the high accelerations it's capable of. Obviously I don't mean unrealistic in a Science Fantasy context, but in a present day context (and also obviously most everything else is also unrealistic). My point was supposed to be that although that number is so incredibly large that we would have no chance of moving it through (our) technology, it's nowhere near the mass of even some fairly small moons.
The first death star was 160 KM in diameter, so a radius of 80 KM. If you assume the same mass density as, say, an aircraft carrier or other military vessel (about 0.15 kg/m^3), you end up with a Death Star that masses about 3e14 KG. That's absurdly heavy to realistically have engines zipping it about, but it's not going to result in major and instantaneous disruptions of orbits. Even Mars' tiny moon Phobos has 100 times the mass. Although the Death Star II from RotJ was supposed to be 900KM across, so that would put it about even with the mass of Phobos. Put another way, the Earth masses 10,000,000,000 times as much (or only 100,000,000 for the Death Star II), so I don't see how the Death Star is going to be winning that gravitational tug-of-war. If you want to argue "Well maybe they have super cool tractor beams so they can amplify their gravitational pull and their massive engines can keep them stationary while they're doing it!" the obvious counter is "They don't, that's why they went with the laser, since they thought about it. Also big laser is more menacing in a platform which has the primary purpose of intimidation. Additionally the big laser doubles as a way to destroy enemy capital ships from well outside their own engagement radius".
The expected number of false positives per is 10-20 per mL of blood, while the expected number of true positives depends on concentrations of the cancerous cells. So basically you put a 10 mL sample in, and 15 minutes later you have 100+ pictures. If the cells are not present, all 100-200ish will be white blood cells, but if it cells are present, half of the pictures will be of the target cell, and that's if the cells are occurring about one out of every million. At any rate, a human expert is needed to look at those pictures to figure things out. And, surprise of surprises, it's workable to have a human look at 100 slides, but not at one billion slides.
Unless they've changed position after Jobs died, their policy is "Even if we go bankrupt, we will DESTROY Android, we will put every manufacturer out of business. We invented cellphones and we will not negotiate with thieves and pirates". Jobs himself is on record saying he would rather die than allow Android to exist. And let nobody say he doesn't accomplish what he sets out to do.
No, they are saying that without being able to throttle users, their network would collapse, and then they could not send messages through it, so in a round-about way such rules would deny them their free speech rights. To use their microphone analogy, if they had a badly designed microphone that violates electrical safety regulations, they are saying that those regulations would be unconstitutional as enforcing them would deny their first amendment right to use that microphone.
They are not saying your data is their free speech. They are saying their data packets are free speech, and that by not letting them throttle customers, the government would be denying them free speech since they could not send the "speech" they want through their now crippled network.
I especially like the way Mrs. FunnyJunk.com rants about how obviously Inman is a murderer, or at least is morally indistinguishable from Jared Lee Loughner (the gunman in the 2011 Tuscon shooting) even if technically he hasn't shot anybody (yet). Because that's NOT defamation of character, unlike ranting about how much FunnyJunk drag their heels on removing copyrighted works, which is the most vile sort of slander imaginable.
Surely not everybody. There have been a few studies that showed a possible link. But the thing about studies with 95% confidence intervals is that when you have 30 of them, a few might show a link. Obligatory XCKD. I don't think any studies have found a strong link to any kind of cancer. There is a link between drinking excessively hot drinks and throat cancer, though, but that applies to anything hot at all. It is speculated that this link may be responsible for the variation between studies, as it's hard to control for how hot people drink their coffee, since they'll only know "pretty hot" vs the actual temperature. For many other cancers (stomach, liver, lung, mouth, pancreas, colon) there are at least some studies that show an inverse correlation, though most of those are mixed. Some, like liver and colon, are pretty consistently showing an inverse correlation over dozens of studies in different settings and countries. And one study with liver cancer shows that it's consistently able to slow the progress of the disease once the patient has it.
The concern is that it contains Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are known (rodent) carcinogens. But the thing is, lots of things contain them. Like tea. Blueberries. You know, other things thought to prevent cancer. Turns out tiny amounts of carcinogenic compounds are OK, especially in foods that contain lots of antioxidants as well.
Due to things like ice coffee and iced frappachinos there's not really any dip in coffee sales during hot weather. At least, the lines aren't any shorter at Timmy's;)
It's a funny line, but when Doc Brown was born people were probably already using "gravitas" to describe something serious, and "weighty" to describe a topic of conversation has probably been around for centuries;)
Turing tests should be two sided. If the human subjects think a judge is a bot, that judge's guesses aren't considered. How can they judge a convincing human conversation if they are unable to hold one themselves? Perhaps you have never been fooled, but your stubborn, mechanical repetition probably has fooled a lot of real people into thinking you're a bot.
Nothing, because the bill doesn't make it a criminal case, it grants civil remedies to the harmed party. So unless the police owned the copyright they couldn't take action. And if they did, they would sue you, not arrest you.
Actually, Creationists get more intelligent with each generation. Have you seen the mental acrobatics involved in ignoring all of the evidence of evolution? The more evidence, the more complex the rationalizations required to dismiss it all. This is of course speaking of the actual Creationist leaders. The followers need nothing more than blind ignorant faith, just like followers of evolution.
Researchers have made a breakthrough in a new stick-based ignition source. If further development pans out, this could end reliance on lightning strikes as the only source of fire.
Format shifting isn't copyright infringement anymore. Did you even read the summary? Apparently not. The illegal part comes from "digital lock breaking", a new offense created by this new law. There are no statutory damages for it, though, so although my wife is a criminal now, Kobo would be hard pressed to win a cent from her and so likely would not bother.
Last week my wife wanted an eBook, but it wasn't available through Amazon. She bought it through Kobo, then removed the Kobo DRM and converted it to a.mobi and put it on her Kindle. It's nice to know that this is now legal format shifting and also illegal lock breaking. What a relief it is to have that kind of clarity. It's nice to know that the Harper government considers this acceptable because "It's unlikely that copyright holders would consider it worthwhile to sue individual violators". This makes me feel so safe. At least it's still just a civil violation, not a 10 year felony;) It's still absolutely insane that Harper would defend the bill as "we won't enforce it so why worry?"
In the original outraged story, poor innocent child comes with a healthy meal of chips, a banana, a sandwich, and extra sugary apple juice (less healthy that pop). She tries so hard to eat her healthy meal but the nazis throw it in the garbage. She gets chicken nuggets only. No fruit, no vegetables, nothing to drink. Then she is sent home with a bill for the food. This is the story in the local paper. Then Fox CNN NBC ABC HuffPo Slashdot Reditt etc all link to the local paper without any followups of their own, and it makes national news. The school is confused because their inspectors don't confiscate anything except peanuts, and they never sent home a bill. This is taken by Slashdot etc as a sign of coverup. Then the woman posts a picture of the bill. The "bill" is a note. This note is dated. The date is NOT the day this happened, but the week prior. The "bill" says that in future, they may begin charging children who are not enrolled in the lunch program, but who need supplementary food because, for example, they were sent with a lunch with no fruit or vegetables. Oops, nothing that could have been done to avoid that mistake except hiring reporters who know how to read. So all you're left with is a mom angry that her child ate junk food like chicken nuggets instead of healthy potato chips, a crying child who says that they made her eat the delicious chicken nuggets and she really tried to eat mom's sandwich but they threw it out, and a school that says they supplement unhealthy lunches, but never replace them. Obviously children never lie to get out of trouble, but schools will always lie about following their documented procedure to get out of trouble.
Just because you're a professional murderer doesn't mean that most murders are done by you and people like you. Most murders are not premeditated assassinations where the assassin prepared their weapon well ahead of time.
Actually, it claims 3 cups of coffee within a few hours of the blood test for caffeine levels. Presumably the total daily intake would be much higher than 3 cups of coffee.
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I think Kijiji is going pretty well, at least in Canada. Someone I know was looking for a room to rent for school, and found many times (she said 10 times) as many rooms and suites available on Kijiji. It's better organized, too, apparently.
Rootkits are about avoiding detection while granting somebody else the ability to execute arbitrary code remotely. Although it's a deviation from the origin of the name, there's no requirement that a rootkit have root access. Ring 3 rootkits are still considered rootkits, and that includes this one, which is essentially a DLL injection into the browser, if one that's not hidden from the user, just made to seem harmless. That is, if you see that there is a uPlay plugin after you install uPlay, you might assume that's to interface between their store and their DRM, rather than having a built-in browser like Steam has. You probably wouldn't think it's there to execute arbitrary code from any website that wants to. When they talk about "privileged access" to your system, they mean the philosophical "privileged access", which is access that nobody else has. Executing arbitrary code is privileged access, because only the local user is supposed to be able to do that. It doesn't mean "root access". At any rate, I don't think privilege escalation is tricky on Windows.
It's civilized violence. Right there in the title. It's so much more acceptable to direct troops without actually seeing the battlefield, rather than actually being there and shooting things yourself! If you don't see the violence, it's just numbers.
Yeah, good work, you got his point but somehow thought it was your own.
Technically, that was in the summary.
Yes, well, I did mean the whole idea of a construction that massive was what was absurd, just more so due to the high accelerations it's capable of. Obviously I don't mean unrealistic in a Science Fantasy context, but in a present day context (and also obviously most everything else is also unrealistic). My point was supposed to be that although that number is so incredibly large that we would have no chance of moving it through (our) technology, it's nowhere near the mass of even some fairly small moons.
The first death star was 160 KM in diameter, so a radius of 80 KM. If you assume the same mass density as, say, an aircraft carrier or other military vessel (about 0.15 kg/m^3), you end up with a Death Star that masses about 3e14 KG. That's absurdly heavy to realistically have engines zipping it about, but it's not going to result in major and instantaneous disruptions of orbits. Even Mars' tiny moon Phobos has 100 times the mass. Although the Death Star II from RotJ was supposed to be 900KM across, so that would put it about even with the mass of Phobos. Put another way, the Earth masses 10,000,000,000 times as much (or only 100,000,000 for the Death Star II), so I don't see how the Death Star is going to be winning that gravitational tug-of-war. If you want to argue "Well maybe they have super cool tractor beams so they can amplify their gravitational pull and their massive engines can keep them stationary while they're doing it!" the obvious counter is "They don't, that's why they went with the laser, since they thought about it. Also big laser is more menacing in a platform which has the primary purpose of intimidation. Additionally the big laser doubles as a way to destroy enemy capital ships from well outside their own engagement radius".
The expected number of false positives per is 10-20 per mL of blood, while the expected number of true positives depends on concentrations of the cancerous cells. So basically you put a 10 mL sample in, and 15 minutes later you have 100+ pictures. If the cells are not present, all 100-200ish will be white blood cells, but if it cells are present, half of the pictures will be of the target cell, and that's if the cells are occurring about one out of every million. At any rate, a human expert is needed to look at those pictures to figure things out. And, surprise of surprises, it's workable to have a human look at 100 slides, but not at one billion slides.
Unless they've changed position after Jobs died, their policy is "Even if we go bankrupt, we will DESTROY Android, we will put every manufacturer out of business. We invented cellphones and we will not negotiate with thieves and pirates". Jobs himself is on record saying he would rather die than allow Android to exist. And let nobody say he doesn't accomplish what he sets out to do.
No, they are saying that without being able to throttle users, their network would collapse, and then they could not send messages through it, so in a round-about way such rules would deny them their free speech rights. To use their microphone analogy, if they had a badly designed microphone that violates electrical safety regulations, they are saying that those regulations would be unconstitutional as enforcing them would deny their first amendment right to use that microphone.
They are not saying your data is their free speech. They are saying their data packets are free speech, and that by not letting them throttle customers, the government would be denying them free speech since they could not send the "speech" they want through their now crippled network.
TFA has more on it, too. Last link.
I especially like the way Mrs. FunnyJunk.com rants about how obviously Inman is a murderer, or at least is morally indistinguishable from Jared Lee Loughner (the gunman in the 2011 Tuscon shooting) even if technically he hasn't shot anybody (yet). Because that's NOT defamation of character, unlike ranting about how much FunnyJunk drag their heels on removing copyrighted works, which is the most vile sort of slander imaginable.
The concern is that it contains Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are known (rodent) carcinogens. But the thing is, lots of things contain them. Like tea. Blueberries. You know, other things thought to prevent cancer. Turns out tiny amounts of carcinogenic compounds are OK, especially in foods that contain lots of antioxidants as well.
Due to things like ice coffee and iced frappachinos there's not really any dip in coffee sales during hot weather. At least, the lines aren't any shorter at Timmy's ;)
It's a funny line, but when Doc Brown was born people were probably already using "gravitas" to describe something serious, and "weighty" to describe a topic of conversation has probably been around for centuries ;)
Turing tests should be two sided. If the human subjects think a judge is a bot, that judge's guesses aren't considered. How can they judge a convincing human conversation if they are unable to hold one themselves? Perhaps you have never been fooled, but your stubborn, mechanical repetition probably has fooled a lot of real people into thinking you're a bot.
Nothing, because the bill doesn't make it a criminal case, it grants civil remedies to the harmed party. So unless the police owned the copyright they couldn't take action. And if they did, they would sue you, not arrest you.
Actually, Creationists get more intelligent with each generation. Have you seen the mental acrobatics involved in ignoring all of the evidence of evolution? The more evidence, the more complex the rationalizations required to dismiss it all. This is of course speaking of the actual Creationist leaders. The followers need nothing more than blind ignorant faith, just like followers of evolution.
Researchers have made a breakthrough in a new stick-based ignition source. If further development pans out, this could end reliance on lightning strikes as the only source of fire.
Format shifting isn't copyright infringement anymore. Did you even read the summary? Apparently not. The illegal part comes from "digital lock breaking", a new offense created by this new law. There are no statutory damages for it, though, so although my wife is a criminal now, Kobo would be hard pressed to win a cent from her and so likely would not bother.
Last week my wife wanted an eBook, but it wasn't available through Amazon. She bought it through Kobo, then removed the Kobo DRM and converted it to a .mobi and put it on her Kindle. It's nice to know that this is now legal format shifting and also illegal lock breaking. What a relief it is to have that kind of clarity. It's nice to know that the Harper government considers this acceptable because "It's unlikely that copyright holders would consider it worthwhile to sue individual violators". This makes me feel so safe. At least it's still just a civil violation, not a 10 year felony ;) It's still absolutely insane that Harper would defend the bill as "we won't enforce it so why worry?"
In the original outraged story, poor innocent child comes with a healthy meal of chips, a banana, a sandwich, and extra sugary apple juice (less healthy that pop). She tries so hard to eat her healthy meal but the nazis throw it in the garbage. She gets chicken nuggets only. No fruit, no vegetables, nothing to drink. Then she is sent home with a bill for the food. This is the story in the local paper. Then Fox CNN NBC ABC HuffPo Slashdot Reditt etc all link to the local paper without any followups of their own, and it makes national news. The school is confused because their inspectors don't confiscate anything except peanuts, and they never sent home a bill. This is taken by Slashdot etc as a sign of coverup. Then the woman posts a picture of the bill. The "bill" is a note. This note is dated. The date is NOT the day this happened, but the week prior. The "bill" says that in future, they may begin charging children who are not enrolled in the lunch program, but who need supplementary food because, for example, they were sent with a lunch with no fruit or vegetables. Oops, nothing that could have been done to avoid that mistake except hiring reporters who know how to read. So all you're left with is a mom angry that her child ate junk food like chicken nuggets instead of healthy potato chips, a crying child who says that they made her eat the delicious chicken nuggets and she really tried to eat mom's sandwich but they threw it out, and a school that says they supplement unhealthy lunches, but never replace them. Obviously children never lie to get out of trouble, but schools will always lie about following their documented procedure to get out of trouble.
Just because you're a professional murderer doesn't mean that most murders are done by you and people like you. Most murders are not premeditated assassinations where the assassin prepared their weapon well ahead of time.
Actually, it claims 3 cups of coffee within a few hours of the blood test for caffeine levels. Presumably the total daily intake would be much higher than 3 cups of coffee.